The Friday drop · issue 1 · 16 Oct 2026

Put your agent on the night shift

The first Friday drop. Five real jobs people handed to AI agents, posted by their authors between 9 and 14 Oct, each with the credit, the source and a prompt you can paste before you log off.

This week's five

Picked by trend score from use cases whose source is dated in the last 7 days. Every one credits its author and links the source.

  1. Have your agent plan and book a whole trip

    Grok Bot, Meta Muse, Codex · by SCOTTY BEAM · original source (12 Oct 2026)

    Agents researched and booked a Lisbon trip, booked every Japan restaurant and negotiated a dinner slot in Japanese.

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  2. Build and backtest a trading bot with no coding background

    Claude, Grok Bot · by Davidd Tech · original source (12 Oct 2026)

    Non-developers have an agent build, backtest and run a trading strategy; claimed results are unverified.

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  3. Run Sonnet as main, Haiku explorers and Opus as advisor

    Claude · by delost · original source (11 Oct 2026)

    Start Claude Code with --advisor opus: Sonnet 5 codes, Haiku 5.5 subagents search, Opus is consulted only at 3 checkpoints.

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  4. Decompile a full game with a long-running agent swarm

    Claude, Codex · by momo5502 · original source (9 Oct 2026)

    Over 3 months and 500B tokens, worker + reviewer agents reached 99% of functions, 83% byte-exact.

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  5. Port a Windows-only app to Linux with Perplexity Computer

    Perplexity Computer · by Aravind Srinivas · original source (14 Oct 2026)

    Computer decompiled a keyboard app with headless Ghidra and rebuilt it in Rust for Linux, with music-synced lighting and macros.

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Agent Wars: Round of 16 is open

Round one, so no results yet. Eight matchups, seeded from real use cases. Closest on paper: Cursor vs Amp, 8 use cases each. Pick your corner. The round runs 15 Oct 2026 – 21 Oct 2026; voting closes 22 Oct 2026, 00:00 UTC.

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Power rankings, in one line

Week 42 (new use cases from 5 to 11 Oct): Claude holds #1 with 46 new, Codex holds #2, Grok Bot climbs 4 to #3, and Cursor is new on the board at #5. See the full table →

Weekly challenge: Plan a whole trip

This week: get your agent to plan a whole trip, end to end. Flights or trains, where to stay, a day-by-day plan and a budget, in one go. Booking is optional; your agent must ask you before it pays for anything.

Inspired by Have your agent plan and book a whole trip, pick 01 above.

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